Car-check holder



E. M. HEIN EKE CAR CHECK HOLDER. APPLICATION mzpbicm, 1920.

1,397,889, Patented Nov. 22, 1921 UNITED STATES EMIL M. HEINEKE, OFSPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

CAR-CHECK HOLDER.

Application filed December 31, 1820.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, Earn. M. Hermann,residing at Springfield. in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinoishave invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Check Holders, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to devices for holding car checks ofmetallic or other compositions commonly used for street railway fares.

An object of my invention is to provide a new and improved car checkholder which is comfortable in the pocket, convenient to use andinexpensive.

A further object of my invention is to provide a quick and easy means ofquickly discharging the car check into the change box with the use ofonly one hand necessary, since it is obvious that a passenger often hasone arm loaded with merchandise and necessarily finds it inconvenient touse both hands in preparing to pay his car fare.

A further object of my invention is to provide a springy actuated armadapted to project successive coins outwardly through a slot in thecontainer and in conjunction with said lever to provide a locking deviceadapted to hold the lever optionally in its latched position.

The preferred embodiment of my invention is hereinafter described andillustrated in accompanying drawings.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the car checkholder of my invention, taken on the axis thereof;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the metallic cylindrical casing 1. to beused as a magazine for containing car checks.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the combination of a base cap 2, feedspring 4: and plunger 3.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of the thumb latch button.

Fig. 5 is a perspective of the resilient strip 24, in Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a perspective of the slotted metallic plunger.

Fig. 7 is a plan or top view of the car check holder.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

Serial No. 434,218.

It will be observed that the nature of my invention is fairly wellillustrated in Fig. 1..

The metallic cylindrical casing (Fig. 2) is adapted to be used as amagazine in which to hold the car checks, said casing having one end 21open to admit the car checks 13 and coil spring plunger 3. Near theopposite end of said casing is a discharge slot 20 cut horizontally withrespect to the length thereof, constituting an outlet opening for thethe discharge of car checks. Opposite said discharge slot 10 is a slot23 cut to acgpmmodate the movement of the plunger On the outside andnear the respective ends of said casing are engaging slots 5 and 7.These slots are pressed out of the cylindrical casing 1. At 5 theresilient strip 24 is securely soldered to the casing and at 7 the thumblatch button (Fig. 4) is detachably securable thereto.

The compression spiral spring plunger and base cap (Fig. 3) is acombination which is adapted to hold the car checks compactly within thecasing.

The thumb latch button (Fig. 4) is adapted to be used as a press buttonwhen discharging car checks and as an engaging latch with which to holdresilient strip 24 and slotted metallic plunger Fig. 6 detachablyengaged with cylindrical casing Fig. 2 when not in use.

Fig. 5 is a perspective of the resilient strip 24.- having therein ashort longitudinal slot 18 within which thumb latch button Fig. 4operates as described and on which is securely attached by solderparallel spring wires 17 adapted to exert a constant tension against bar16 on the thumb latch button Fig. 4 to keep said button where it isoptionally placed, whether in an engaged or disengaged position.

This resilient strip is securely attached at end 6 to the cylindricalcasing at 5 and the opposite end of said resilient strip is looped toform a part of a hinged connection with the slotted plunger Fig. 6.

A hinge pin 15 is used in forming the hinged connection between saidresilient strip and said slotted plunger.

The slotted metallic plunger Fig. 6 has a longitudinal slot thereinwhich is adapted to be used for holding the plunger in proper alinementin action and having the contact end thereof ]1 closed to enable theplunger to come in contact with pin 22, when being retracted. Said pinis soldered to vcasing 1 across slot 23 to keep said plunger fromslipping out of said casing when being retracted. The opposite end ofsaid plunger at 12 is looped to form a part of the hinged connectionbet-ween the plunger and resilient strip. This plunger is designed to beapproximately the same thickness as the coins commonly used and meansare provided in the operation of the discharge plunger whereby saidplunger is detachably secured within the discharge slot passage when notin use, thereby holding all remaining coins securely and compactlywithin the magazine until it is de sired to discharge them successively.

Fig. 7 is a plan or top view of the car check holder of my inventionshown as it would look with a car check partially discharged therefrom.

WVhen the operator desires to use the car check holder of my invention,he releases the bottom cap 2 (Fig. 2) and withdraws the spring f andplunger 8 from the coin chamber by pulling 011 the base cap 2; then thecar checks are put in the magazine, after which the feed spring (Fig. 3)is reinserted and secured in its operative position.

When it is desired to discharge a car check therefrom, the operatorreleases with his his thumb the thumb latch 19 from its engaging slot 7,thus permitting the resilient strip 24 to normally retract, effecting anautomatic retraction of the discharge plunger Fig. 6, towhich saidresilient strip 24 is hingedly connected at 10. The operator may noweffect a complete discharge of the car check by exerting a slightpressure of the thumb on button 14, whereby the slotted metallic plungerFig. 6 is forced to completely discharge the coin 13 from the slot 20 incylindrical easing 1.

It is obvious that thedetails of construction may be made in many ways,andyet stay within the spirit and scope of the ap pended claims.

Having thus described the nature of my invention, what I claim as newand useful and of my own invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent is:

i. In a car check holder of the character described, having a slottedmetallic discharge plunger, a metallic cylindrical casing and a thumblatch button, a resilient strip mounted on the outside and near the openend of a metallic cylindrical casing, said resilient strip being adaptedto automatically retract said discharge plunger; means connecting saidresilient strip with said discharge plunger and means fordetachablyengaging said resilient strip with said casing when not inuse; saidresilient strip having a short longitudinal slot therein andparallel wire springs securely attached thereto near the operative endthereof and having its slotted end turned to form a hinge loop therein,as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a car check holder of the character described, having a stopdevice in conjunction with a transversely slotted metallic cylindricalcasing, a longitudinally slotted metallic plunger adapted to be used asa discharge plunger for the discharge of car checks, having one endthereof looped to form a hinge section and the other end squared old toneatly close the longitudinal lot therein; means provided in a stop device secured transversely across the slot through which said dischargeplunger normally slides in said casing, said step device adapted toarrest the movement of said plunger at predetermined limits, as and forthe purpose set forth.

In a car check holder of the character described, having a resilientstrip and a slotted metallic plunger hingedly connected and a metalliccylindrical casing, a combination comprising a wire solderedtransversely across a guide slot in a cylindrical casing, forming aguide for said discharge plunger and a stop device in conjunction withsaid guide slot adapted to hold said discharge plunger withinpredetermined limits,-substantially as set forth.

l. In a car-check holder of the character described, having a resilientstrip with a short longitudinal slot therein and parallel wire springssoldered thereon, a device com prising in combination, a sliding thumblatch button adapted to be operated within said slot of said resilientstrip; means provided in a pin securely attached to said sliding latchbutton to cotirdinate with said par allel wire springsin holding saidsliding latch button substantially where located when thumb control isreleased, as'and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a car check holder of the character described, having a metalliceylindri al casing, with an engaging slot; pressed out of the slidethereof, a combination comprising a resilient strip and a slottedmetallic plunger having a hinge connection and a sliding thumb latchbutton slidable within the slot in said resilient strip and detachablyengageable with a catch on the oute side of said cylindiical casing,adapted to optionally render the complete discharge of car checkssuccessively, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I havehereunto set my hand this 28th day of December,A, 1920. i

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